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Hosted and moderated by ISET Policy Institute’s Salome Gelashvili, Acting Head of the Agricultural and Rural Development Policy Research Center, the German Sparkassenstiftung Southern Caucasus and Ukraine (DSIK) have recently developed a presentation looking into their Climate Risk Pattern Analysis in Georgia. The event offered an overview of DSIK’s efforts into improving the resilience of farmers and entrepreneurs to climate change shocks in rural areas. The workshop moreover discussed the German funded project (Promotion of rural finance for sustainable MSE development in the South Caucasus and Ukraine), which aims to strengthen economic participation and financial services in rural areas. This project contributes to the sustainable improvement of living conditions and the reduction of rural flight, while further heightening resilience to exogenous shocks such as the effects of climate change or the COVID-19 pandemic.

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We were thrilled to see Salome Gelashvili, head of the ISET-PI Agricultural Policy Research Center (APRC), actively participate in a UNDP Georgia online discussion. During the virtual roundtable (entitled Local Economic Development and Business Friendly Environment for Municipalities), a variety of notable international speakers, particularly utilizing Czech expertise, came together to consider business development, combatting the rural-urban divide, and the effect of COVID-19 on the informal sector. Working under typical macro socioeconomic perspectives, the experts also looked into the significance of development at a municipal level and the importance of business-friendly municipalities.

Salome joined the panel discussion and presented views based on her extensive experience in the public sector and from various ISET research alongside ISET’s core indexes, which play a key role in gauging business in Georgian municipalities and help highlight burgeoning issues in the business environment. She focused on the research conducted at the municipal level and the importance of availability of the municipal statistical data.

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